permission

noun
/pəˈmɪʃ.ən/UK/pəɹˈmɪʃ.ən/US/ˈpər.mɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

  1. derived from permissiō
  2. derived from permission
  3. inherited from permision

Definitions

  1. authorisation

    authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

    • Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
  2. The act of permitting.

  3. Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and…

    Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

    • I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To grant or obtain authorization for.

      • Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at permission. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01permission02formal03official04authorized05allowed06permitted07permit

A definitional loop anchored at permission. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at permission

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA